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    • ELO’s The NEXT
    • Restorations & Reconstructions
    • Rebooting Electronic Literature 1
    • Rebooting Electronic Literature 2
    • Rebooting Electronic Literature 3
    • Rebooting Electronic Literature 4
    • Live Stream Traversals
    • Podcasts
    • Published Games
  • Catalog
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    • Expanded Catalog
  • CMDC Studios
  • News,  Updates

    Announcing Deena Larsen, ELL’s Artist in Residence

    August 20, 2023 /

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    Coping with Bits Project Meeting

    December 20, 2018

    Data Collection, Final Results

    June 9, 2019

    Celebrating Endangered Data Week with Tim McLaughlin’s Notes Toward Absolute Zero

    February 23, 2019
  • News

    Hypertext & Art: A Retrospective of Forms

    August 18, 2023 /

      What you are looking at is Sierra O’Neal’s 3D model of Lorenzo Miglioli’s 1993 RA-DIO, the first published Italian hypertext and the first in Italy created on the Storyspace platform. As you can see, RA-DIO consists of a print book and two 3.5-inch floppy disks packaged in a plastic sleeve. The floppy disks, formatted for Macintosh and PCs, contains Miglioni’s experimental hypertext and Walter Vannini’s Italian translation of Michael Joyce’s afternoon, a story. The book contains what Vannini called an “Inter/net/view” with Michael Joyce and the printout of RA-DIO’s contents.  A joint venture by Castelvecchi Editore and Human Systems, Castelvecchi oversaw the book component while Human Systems, which owned the…

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    Chapter 1 of Rebooting Electronic Literature is Released

    January 28, 2018

    Data Collection, Week 4

    May 31, 2019

    The Impact of Undergraduate Research on a Field

    December 31, 2018
  • News,  Updates

    MIX 2023

    June 3, 2023 /

    We are preparing for “MIX 2023: Storytelling in Immersive Media,” taking place at the British Library on July 7, 2023. Dene is representing the lab on the panel entitled “Unlocking the Digital Archive: Archiving, Preservation, and Enhanced Curation,” otherwise known as Panel 4. She is both Chairing the panel and giving a presentation about the work the lab is doing with accessibility and metadata.  This will be the 7th MIX conference and one that brings together many of the luminaries in the field of interactive media. Kate Pullinger, Caitlin Fisher, Andy Campbell and Judi Alston, Deena Larsen, Judith Pintar, Giulia Carla Rossi, Lyle Skains, among so many others, are involved.…

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    Deena Larsen’s Donation to ELO

    December 1, 2018

    Why I Care about Early Interactive Media

    February 22, 2020

    Victory Garden 2022 in The Digital Review

    September 16, 2022
  • News

    In honor of Helen Thorington

    April 16, 2023 /

    Helen Thorington, founder of the influential Turbulence.org (1996-2016), died on April 13, 2023 after a long illness. The lab is grateful for her passion and vision to showcase born-digital art and nurture artists, so many of whom built their careers through their association with Turbulence.org. For us in ELL, it has been a joy to work on The Turbulence Collection at ELO’s The NEXT over the last five years and with both Helen and Jo-Anne to maintain it for  them. We are committed to this mission. Below is the obituary that her partner, Jo-Anne Green, posted on Facebook: “Helen Louise Thorington (nicknamed “Teedy”) was born in Philadelphia (1928), and grew…

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    Richard Holeton’s Writings & Art about the 1970s Counterculture, Drugs, and Pigs

    January 11, 2019

    Announcing the Publication of Rebooting Electronic Literature!

    May 26, 2018

    Welcome to ELL’s 2018-19 Undergraduate Researchers for the COPE Project

    June 7, 2018
  • News,  Updates

    The 3rd Summit on New Media Art Archiving

    March 9, 2023 /

    My colleague Erika Fülöp (who is also a Research Affiliate of ELL) and I are giving a paper, entitled “Piloting Shared Born-Digital Archives between the US and Europe,” at the 3rd Summit on New Media Art Archiving taking place at ISEA 2023 in Paris this May. Our research is based on the project we developed for expanding the archives held in ELO’s The NEXT to locations outside of the U.S. in order to ensure its accessibility and collection foci. Below is the abstract for the paper: Containing several thousand works from the 1980s to today, the Electronic Literature Organization’s (ELO) The NEXT, created and managed by the Electronic Literature Lab…

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    Live Stream Traversal of Richard Holeton’s Figurski at Findhorn on Acid

    February 16, 2019

    A Successful Presentation at the MLA 2020

    January 12, 2020

    Article about ELL in Library of Congress Publication, The Signal

    November 13, 2013
  • News

    ELL Is Referenced in Holeton’s Article

    February 25, 2023 /

    The Electronic Literature Lab’s work to reconstruct Richard Holeton’s Figurski at Findhorn on Acid is referenced in the recently re-released Re_Dis_Connection, the publication of the 14th International Conference on Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS). The article, penned by the author, details the work we did to re-conceive Figurski––originally produced on the Storyspace platform––for the Web and for a contemporary audience, many of whom had not been born when the hypertext novel was published in 2001. A free copy of the publication is available from Carnegie Mellon ETC Press at https://press.etc.cmu.edu/proceedings/redisconnection.

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    CELL Confab with Joe Tabbi and Davin Heckman

    May 6, 2018

    Curatorial Statement for “Tear Down the Wall” Exhibition at ACM Hypertext ’19

    August 11, 2019

    Welcome to ELL’s 2018-19 Undergraduate Researchers for the COPE Project

    June 7, 2018
  • News,  Updates

    Report about the Lab’s Update to ELO’s The NEXT

    January 15, 2023 /

    The Electronic Literature Lab has been busy during its planned Winter Refinement period: 1) enhancing the metadata for many collections held in The NEXT, 2) preserving works produced with Flash and other outmoded software, such MIDI and Java Applets, and 3) completing the “Cite” feature that allows visitors to cite all the works in The NEXT. Metadata, Preservation, and Citation Feature To date, the lab has updated the metadata for and preserved works in The frAme Collection, The Word Circuits Collection, and close to 50% of the 369 works in The Turbulence Collection. These efforts bring those collections donated early in the development of the ELO’s Repository to the level of…

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    The Impact of Undergraduate Research on a Field

    December 31, 2018

    Launch Party for Richard Holeton’s Figurski at Findhorn on Acid

    June 29, 2021

    Rhizome’s Linked Open Data/Wikibase Summit

    September 23, 2018
  • News,  Updates

    Victory Garden 2022 in The Digital Review

    September 16, 2022 /

    The lab’s efforts to reconstruct Stuart Moulthrop’s Victory Garden is featured in The Digital Review (TDR), Issue 02 in the “Rediscoveries” section of the journal in an essay appropriately titled, “Reconstructing Stuart Moulthrop’s Victory Garden.” As the editors of TDR write, “Rediscoveries of electronic literature are no different than rediscoveries of print literature. Without structured acts of rediscovery, the works that shape a given era can easily be lost – and this is even more the case for a digital canon whose platforms are changing all the time. . . .  The Digital Review and the Electronic Literature Lab will be doing the same, over the current decade, for at…

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    Why I Care about Early Interactive Media

    February 22, 2020

    Introduction to Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities & Forthcoming Book Launch

    January 12, 2021

    Mellon Report Submitted

    March 28, 2019
  • News,  Updates

    Reconstruction of Sarah Smith’s “King of Space”

    May 21, 2022 /

    The Electronic Literature Lab and the Creative Media & Digital Culture Program are proud to announce the launch of the reconstruction of Sarah Smith’s King of Space. In production since January 12, 2022, the work is now widely accessible via the Web at https://kingofspace.org/. Reconstruction was undertaken by 23 spring graduates of the program who were guided by staff from the lab and the author herself.  King of Space (KOS) Version 1.0 was begun in 1987 and published in 1991 by Eastgate Systems, Inc. on two 3.5-inch floppy disks for Macintosh computers. Rapid technological developments relating to hardware and software caused it to be inaccessible to the public by the late…

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    Celebrating Women in E-Lit

    February 29, 2020

    Welcome to ELL’s 2018-19 Undergraduate Researchers for the COPE Project

    June 7, 2018

    Live Stream Traversal of Judy Malloy’s its name was Penelope

    April 22, 2018
  • News,  Updates

    Collection Selected for the Recovery Hub of American Women Writers

    May 11, 2022 /

    The Marjorie C. Luesebrink Collection that the lab developed and curated for ELO’s The NEXT was selected for inclusion in the July 2022 showcase of the “Recovery Hub of American Women Writers.” The Collection––consisting of 66 works the artists donated to The NEXT, 32 of which were created by the artist and preserved in various methods by the lab––was peer-reviewed in a process that involved “private, actionable feedback, and a public-facing showcase” (“Email,” 2 May 2022). It is an honor for Margie’s collection to be showcased by The Hub, an organization that “supports projects recovering the work of women writers by providing digital access to forgotten or neglected texts and/or extending them with…

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    ELL Undergraduate Researchers Reconstitute Deena Larsen’s Kanji-Kus

    April 6, 2019

    Data Collection, Final Results

    June 9, 2019

    Live Stream Traversal of Richard Holeton’s Figurski at Findhorn on Acid

    February 16, 2019
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People

Director: Dr. Dene Grigar, Professor, The Creative Media & Digital Culture Program

Associate Director: Dr. Richard Snyder, Assistant Professor, Northwest College

Technical and Instructional Assistant: Greg Philbrook, B.A., The Creative Media & Digital Culture Program

Project Manager & Senior Designer: Holly Slocum, B.A., The Creative Media & Digital Culture Program

Affiliate Scholars: John Barber, PhD (US); Mariusz Pisarski, PhD (Poland); Erika Fulop, PhD, University of Toulouse (France); Agnieszka Przybyszewska, PhD, University of Łódź (Poland)

Post-Bacc Researchers: Kathleen Zoller, Ruth Woodcock, Andrew Thompson, Ariel Wallace, Sierra O'Neal, Ahria Nicholas

PhD & 2022 PostDoc Fellow: Madison McCartha, UC Santa Cruz

2022 ELO Fellow: Alexandra Martin, QUAM (Canada)

This website was created by Katie Bowen, Mariah Gwin, Holly Slocum and Austin Fields. Madeleine Brookman produced the ELL logo. All custom icons were designed by Holly Slocum. It is managed by Dene Grigar

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